Mother’s Day is a special occasion to celebrate the women in our lives who take the time to care for us. Many women in Lehigh Valley take on the role of Fresh Air mom, as they open their hearts to New York City children through The Fresh Air Fund’s Volunteer Host Family Program. This Mother’s Day, consider sharing the simple joys of summertime with a Fresh Air child.
Each summer, over 4,000 children visit volunteer host families in rural, suburban and small town communities across 13 states from Virginia to Maine and Canada. Families find hosting so rewarding that more than 65 percent of all Fresh Air children are reinvited to visit the same host families year after year. Fresh Air children are given the opportunity to experience a world outside of New York City full of meadows to run in, streams to fish in and lakes to swim in.
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“Hosting seemed like a simple gift to give a child. We take so many things we have for granted, like riding a bike or learning to swim. We thought if we could touch just one child’s life, that would be our gift to them,” says a Fresh Air host mother from New Hampshire.
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The Fresh Air Fund, an independent, not-for-profit agency, has provided free summer experiences to more than 1.7 million New York City children from low-income communities since 1877. To learn more about hosting a Fresh Air child this summer, please contact Jennifer Ott at 1-484-550-9187 or The Fresh Air Fund at 1-800-367-0003. You can also visit The Fresh Air Fund online at www.freshair.org.
